10 DECEMBER 1887, Page 11

His Little Royal Highness. By Rath Ogden. Illustrated by W.

Rainey. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—Little Regis tumbles off, or rather with, a rotten bough, and breaks his leg. His playmates devise means of entertaining him, and light upon the idea of pre- tending that he is a young Prince, and they his bodyguard, bound to do his pleasure. Hence come various developments. Sister Julia, the nurse, is an important person in the little drama ; and there are other characters whose personalities and doings are well portrayed by pen and pencil. The scene of the story is laid on the other side of the Atlantic; it will not be the less welcome for that.